Ireland in our Sights!

It looks like we are going to Ireland!  We found tickets that were really reasonable and have reserved them for November 14 with the return to Houston on Thanksgiving Day.  Thank you so much for those that have begun to give toward our mission scouting trip to Ballina, County Mayo, in the West of Ireland.

We are so very excited and feel honored to have the opportunity to go and investigate the possibilities of what God may have in store for us.  Phillip and I are praying that God will show us definitively during our time there, if this is where He is directing our next steps.

God is revealing to us, more and more, the importance of community.  He has placed us, we believe, purposefully, in a working community here at Youth-Reach Houston in order to teach us how to live with the vulnerability of living with other people very close.

Please pray that God will guide us as we take these steps to seek God's plan for our family.  If when we return from our scouting trip to Ballina God has revealed to us that this is where we should follow him next, we will most likely not leave for Ireland for at least another year.  We will need to pray, to build prayer and financial support, and also to seek council as to the steps to make such a move.

Also, many have asked about Phillip's university courses.  The courses he is taking this semester are all completely online, and he will be able to do work anywhere there is an internet connection.  Praise God for internet!  In regards to any questions, if you have a question for us, you can email us, obviously, or at the bottom of this blog is a section for questions and answers.  You can enter the question in that section, and we can answer there where everyone else can see the conversation as well.